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Charge them with crime upon crime. Don`t let them come into your righteousness.
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Sin as Its Own Punishment
Commentators overwhelmingly see this as a prayer for God to justly hand the wicked over to their own sinful desires. As a form of judgment, God allows them to sink deeper into sin, accumulating guilt and sealing their own fate. This difficult concept, echoed in Romans 1, shows that a consequence of persistent rebellion against God can be a hardened heart that no longer seeks Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Add iniquity to their iniquity - The margin reads, “punishment of iniquity.” The literal rendering is, “Give iniquity on their iniquity.” Lu…
19th Century
Anglican
Add iniquity: This may be understood in two different senses:
16th Century
Protestant
Add iniquity to their iniquity. As the Hebrew word און, avon, signifies at times guilt as well as iniquity, som…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Add iniquity to their iniquity Let them alone in sin; suffer them to go on in it; lay no restraints upon them; put n…
These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses 22 and 23 are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in…
